Beef & Cheesy Egg Burritos
Serves 6
Directions
- 1Crack 12 whole eggs into a mixing bowl, ensuring there is no shell in there.
- 2Break up the yolks and mix it all together until it is nice and smooth with a whisk or a fork.
- 3Grate 100g of cheddar cheese on the larger side of a box grater.
- 4Place a large pan over a medium high heat with spray oil, olive oil or butter.
- 5Add 750g of 90% lean beef mince.
- 6Let it sit for a minute to build up a crust, then start breaking it up.
- 7Add in a pinch of salt and cracked black pepper and cook it for about 5 to 6 minutes, or until no longer pink.
- 8Add 2 tsp of smoked paprika, 1 tsp each of onion and garlic powder, 1 tsp each of dried oregano and dried thyme, 1 tsp of ground cumin, 1 can of diced tomatoes, and a splash of water.
- 9Mix it all together and cook this for about 2 to 2 and a half minutes.
- 10Remove from stovetop into a bowl.
- 11Re-use the same pan for the scrambled eggs.
- 12Add 1 Tbsp of unsalted butter.
- 13Add in the egg mix.
- 14Fold everything until you get long ribbons or curds.
- 15Season to taste with salt and ground white pepper.
- 16Turn it off the heat, then add in the grated cheese and use the residual heat to melt the cheese.
- 17For each of the 6 wraps, add 125g of the beef mix and 120g of scrambled eggs.
- 18Add sauce of choice and cracked black pepper.
- 19Wrap it up nice and tight and make sure nothing is bursting out of the seams, with the seam sitting at the bottom.
- 20Place them onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper, add over a little bit of spray oil, and place them into an oven at 200 degrees Celsius.
- 21Bake for about 15 minutes until you get a nice crunchy golden top.
- 22Wrap them tight in foil for storing.
Ingredients
- spray oil
- 750 g lean beef mince (ground beef)
- 2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 can diced tomato
- pinch salt
- cracked black pepper
- 1 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 12 large eggs
- 100 g cheddar cheese, grated
- ground white pepper
- 6 low calorie wraps
- sauce
Equipment
wooden chopping boardmixing bowlwhisk or forkbox graterlarge panspatulaspoonbaking trayparchment paperovenaluminium foil
Tips
- Swap and change things, change up the herbs, change up the spices
- Add spray oil to cut the calories
- With fatty beef, you can drain off some of the fat
- For reheating, heat it up in the oven or in an air fryer
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